1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think the poem is finished, the poem says, "You're not finished with me yet," and you have to go back and revise, and you may have another poem altogether. It has its own life to live.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.